Adjective: qualifies or gives quality? Adjective Functions

So that we can understand perfectly about another learning experience that we will come to conquer here, let us observe, therefore, some examples:

elegant boy

rude girl

smiling teacher

Impatient tourists...

As you can see, the terms that accompany the nouns, in all the examples, are classified as adjectives. However, we ask you: does the adjective qualify or give quality?

the adjective qualifies
the adjective qualifies

Well, those demarcated as "impeccable" and "impatient", in our view, are not conceived like that... as well accepted, isn't it true? Let's go to the others, therefore:

 "Elegant" and "smiling"... these yes, it goes without saying that they are considered excellent virtues, do you agree?

Based on these examples that we have just seen, it seems to be very easy to answer the previous question, that is: the adjectiveQualifies or gives quality?Of course you will agree, as the elements are sometimes good, sometimes bad, the adjective... guess:

it really qualifies, being that qualification can be done either negatively or positively, ok?

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